Successful Transformational Leader

The Characteristics of a Successful Transformational Leader I Have Experienced.

A transformational leader in education I experienced used several leadership approaches to form a team of teachers to change the school’s culture due to gang intrusion (See Table 2).

How I would Use Four Leadership Approaches Within an Educational Setting of Interest

I am a transformational leader. As a substitute after retirement, I had the opportunity to work in an alternative school to fill a position for six months due to the pregnancy of the teacher. It is an experience that I will never forget and one of the most rewarding. However, if I had been the principal of this school the application of leadership approaches would have been vastly different. It was

Many just set at their desk and gave busy work, while many ignored the whispering and conversations going on during class time. Passionate new teachers that started at the beginning of the year openly voiced that they would not return to the school because of the negative atsmophere. Had I not been interviewed by the principal, I would not have known who she was because she stayed in her office everyday and was invisiable. The students acted exactly like the teachers perceived them.. As a transformation leader, I now understand that leaders must deal with a multitude of situations; therefore, applying the four approaches in some measure would be needed in the instance of leading this school. My first task would be to apply situational leadership theory to assess if my thinking of the school culture beliefs, attitudes and behavors was as I perceived them (McClesky (2014) as cited in Phillips, 1996, p.1). Change for the best of teachers is not an easy task and as a new principal with different ideas, mission, morals and ways of doing things using the adaptive method would help me change the mindsets and beliefs of the present teaching and other staff. I would use this approach

Teachers that continued in a negative vain would be scheduled for a conference. My first opening would be to remind the teacher that our first concern is our students and whether in the traditional school or alternative school this is the profession we have chosen and we are here to teach. I would listen to the person to determine why they were so negative and ask for their input on how we can change their negative view into a positive one. I would coach and work with the teacher to try and change the negative feelings.I am a firm believer that negative workers affect the thinking of others by making others negative; therefore, after a certain period of time, if negative thinking teachers could not become more positive toward the student they were to teach, removal from the school might be necessary so more positive replacements could be brought in. Lastly, I would work on parent involvement since so many times parents are frustrated when they have a child who is always in trouble helping parents help their child will help to make the child more successful